The technical wizard, first responsible for games like Doom, is now the CTO of Oculus. He's also claimed responsibility for helping bring both Netflix and Minecraft into virtual reality. (He called the latter the "perfect metaverse" for VR.) Now that Minecraft is fully in consumers' hands, Carmack is already dreaming what he could tinker with next.

With Minecraft out the door, I think my next VR software fantasy would be Nintendo letting me take a swing at porting a GC /Wii/3DS Mario.

Deep breaths, Nintendo fans. This is probably never going to get approved by Nintendo, though that certainly couldn't stop Carmack from tinkering. It just means his efforts could never be commercially released.

I think there is a lot of potential for taking older games and seeing them in a new light in VR, but so much source data is lost forever.

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